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thing. In my fuller MS. I have discussed a good many 

 instincts ; but there will surely be more unfilled gaps here 

 than with corporeal structure, for we have no fossil instincts, 

 and know scarcely any except of European animals. When 

 I reflect how very slowly I came round myself, I am in truth 

 astonished at the candour shown by Lyell, Hooker, Huxley, 

 and yourself. In my opinion it is grand. I thank you cor- 

 dially for taking the trouble of writing a review for the 

 ' National.' God knows I shall have few enough in any 

 degree favourable.* 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Saturday [December 5th, 1859]. 



... I have had a letter from Carpenter this morning. He 

 reviews me in the ' National.' He is a convert, but does not 

 go quite so far as I, but quite far enough, for he admits that 

 all birds are from one progenitor, and probably all fishes and 

 reptiles from another parent. But the last mouthful chokes 

 him. He can hardly admit all vertebrates from one parent. 

 He will surely come to this from Homology and Embryology. 

 I look at it as grand having brought round a great physio- 

 logist, for great I think he certainly is in that line. How 

 curious I shall be to know what line Owen will take: dead 

 against us, I fear ; but he wrote me a most liberal note on the 

 reception of my book, and said he was quite prepared to 

 consider fairly and without prejudice my line of argument. 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Down, Saturday [December I2th, 1859]. 



... I had very long interviews with , which perhaps 



you would like to hear about. ... I infer from several 

 expressions that, at bottom, he goes an immense way with 

 us 



* See a letter to Dr. Carpenter, Vol. II. p. 262. 



